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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove stop_machine during module load
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:02:00 +1000
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On Saturday 30 August 2008 05:17:34 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Remove stop_machine during module load
>
> module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
> the module into the global module lists.  Especially on larger systems this
> can be quite expensive.

Thanks Andi, but doesn't this mean that we should be doing list_for_each_rcu 
in all the kallsyms readers?

Rusty.